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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
Texas Education Code 28.06
VC
Impulsivity
2. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Chall's Stage 0
Morpheme
Visual Processing
3. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Comprehension
CTOPP
Academic Achievement Tests
Criterion-Referenced Test
4. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Consonant Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
Texas Education Code 38.003
Vr
5. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonological Awareness
Universal Screening
6. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonics approach
Comprehension
Age equivalent
7. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Consonant
Multisensory
Cognitive Assessment
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
8. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Breve
NICHD
ADHD
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
9. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
VC
RTI
Direct Instruction
10. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Syntax
Academic Achievement Tests
Cognitive Assessment
Rate
11. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Tactile
Simultaneous teaching
Oral Language
12. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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13. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Diphthong
Letter naming Chart
ADHD
Joe Torgesen
14. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Towre
Cedilla
Prefix
Curriculum referenced tests
15. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Syntax
Semantics
Norm-Referenced Test
Standardized test
16. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
NICHD
Criterion referenced tests
Modern English
Vr
17. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Vowel Digraph
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Combination
18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Closed Syllable
Quadrigraph
Multisensory
Ability
19. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Receptive language
Composite Score
Percentile
Chall's Stage 2
20. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
The Norman Conquest
Composite Score
Semantics
IDEA
21. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Accommodation
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Top-down Reading Approach
22. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Suffix
Consonant Digraph
Consonant
Auditory Processing
23. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Academic Achievement Tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Vowel
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
24. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Norm-Referenced Test
Chall's Stage 5
The Norman Conquest
Synthetic Instruction
25. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Percentile/ percentile rank
Chall's Stage 4
Whole Language
Curriculum referenced tests
26. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress
Grade equivalents
Diagnostic tests
NICHD
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
27. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Standard deviation
Grapheme
Quadrigraph
28. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Joe Torgesen
Keith Stanovich
Base Word
Diagnostic Teaching
29. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Standard score
WIATII
Adolf Kusmaul
Three Layers of Language
30. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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31. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Chall's Stage 1
ALTA
Cedilla
Tilde
32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Comprehension
Curriculum referenced tests
Grade equivalents
Diphthong
33. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Attention
GORT
IDEA
Age equivalent
34. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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35. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Old English
Keith Stanovich
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Impulsivity
36. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Matthew Effect
The Norman Conquest
Impulsivity
Multi-Sensory Approach
37. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Macron
Profile
38. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Modern English
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IDEA
Macron
39. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Phoneme
Frank Smith
Anglo Saxon
40. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Modern English
Adolf Kusmaul
Components of Reading Instruction
Visual Learners
41. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
V-e
IEP
Suffix
Battery
42. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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43. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Sound Symbol Association
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Accuracy
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
44. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Phonology
Attention
Diagnostic Teaching
45. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Modification
Tilde
Criterion referenced tests
Analytic
46. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Mathew Effect
Rate
Phonics
Phonics approach
47. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
IMSLEC
Diagnostic tests
Receptive language
Curriculum referenced tests
48. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Cognitive Assessment
Universal Screening
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Criterion referenced tests
49. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Matthew Effect
Oral Language
Cognition
Morphology
50. Multisensory Structured Language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
IMSLEC
Phonological Awareness
MSL